No. 788. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS-MANUFACTURING AND MINING CONCERNS ACQUIRED: 1920 to 1971

[Total limited to actions reported by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and Standard & Poor's Corporation. Many smaller acquisitions are not reported in these sources. Includes partial acquisitions when they comprise whole divisions of other companies. See also Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series V 30]

1 Includes all concerns with assets of $10 million and over. * Preliminary.

No. 789. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS—Manufacturing and MINING CONCERNS ACQUIRED, BY INDUSTRY GROUP OF ACQUIRING CONCERN: 1955 TO 1971

No. 790. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS-MANUFACTURING AND MINING CONCERNS ACQUIRED, BY SIZE OF ASSETS OF ACQUIRING Concern: 1960 to 1971

Source of tables 788-70 U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Report on Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, 1955, and

rent Trends in Merger Actady, 1871.

No. 791. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FAILURES-NUMBER AND LIABILITIES: 1946 To 1972

[Excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Excludes all railroad failures. Excludes real estate and financial companies. Includes voluntary discontinuances with loss to creditors and small concerns forced out of business with insufficient assets to cover all claims. See also Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series V 1-3]

1 Data represent number of names listed in July issue of Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book. See table 793 for class of industries covered.

court.

* Includes concerns discontinuing following assignment, voluntary or involuntary petition in bankruptcy, attachment, execution, foreclosure, etc.; voluntary withdrawals from business with known loss to creditors; also enterprises involved in court action, such as receivership and reorganization or arrangement which may or may not lead to discontinuance; and businesses making voluntary compromise with creditors out of Liabilities exclude long-term publicly held obligations; offsetting assets are not taken into account. Source: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., New York, N.Y., The Failure Record Through 1971, and unpublished data. No. 792. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FAILURES-NUMBER AND LIABILITIES, BY STATES: 1970 AND 1972

Source: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., New York, N. Y., The Failure Record Through 1971 and Monthly Failure

Report.

No. 793. INDUSTRIAL AND COMmercial Failures-Number aND LIABILITIES, BY INDUSTRY AND SIZE OF LIABILITY: 1955 to 1972 [Excludes Alaska and Hawaii. See footnotes 2 and 3, table 791]

Source: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., New York, N.Y., The Failure Record Through 1971 and Monthly Failure Report.

No. 794. Bankruptcy Cases Filed and Pending: 1905 to 1972

[In thousands. For years ending June 30. Covers all U.S. District Courts. A bankruptcy case is a proceeding filed in a U.S. District Court under the National Bankruptcy Act. "Filed" means the commencement of a proceeding through the presentation of a petition to the clerk of the court; "Pending" is a proceeding in which the administration has not been completed]

No. 795.

ITEM

BANKRUPTCY CASES FILED, BY TYPE OF BANKRUPTCY AND OCCUPATION
OF DEBTOR: 1940 to 1972

[For years ending June 30. See headnote, table 794]

Represents zero. 1 Beginning 1965, excludes corporate and involuntary straight cases.

Source of tables 794 and 795: Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Tables of Bankruptcy Statistics, nual.

Section 18
Communications

This section presents statistics on usage, finances, and operations of the various communications media: Postal service, telephone, telegraph, radio, television, newspapers, and books. Data on the postal service are included in the Annual Report of the Postmaster General. Statistics on revenues, volume of mail, and distribution of expenditures are presented in the U.S. Postal Service's annual Revenue and Cost Analysis Report. Principal sources of wire, radio, and television data are the Federal Communications Commission's Annual Report, its annual Statistics of Communications Common Carriers, and its annual releases of financial data reported by radio and television stations and networks. Statistics on number and circulation of newspapers and periodicals and on sales of books and pamphlets are issued by the Bureau of the Census in reports of the Census of Manufactures. Annual data on number and circulation of daily and Sunday newspapers appear in International Yearbook Number, issued by Editor and Publisher, New York. Monthly data on new books and new editions of books are presented by R. R. Bowker Company, New York, in Publishers' Weekly. Postal Service.-"Revenue and cost analysis" is the term used by the Postal Service to describe its system of attributing revenues and costs to classes of mail and service. This system draws primarily upon probability sampling techniques to develop estimates of revenues, volumes, and weights as well as costs by class of mail and special service. The costs attributed to classes of mail and special services are primarily incremental costs which vary in response to changes in volume; they account for roughly one-half of the total costs of the Postal Service. Postal rates are set sufficiently above these incremental cost levels to recover all costs of the Postal Service. Telephone and telegraph systems.-Statistical coverage of wire and radio communications has been concentrated in the Federal Communications Commission since its establishment in 1934. According to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, the Commission has jurisdiction over carriers engaged in interstate or foreign communications service by means of wire or radio. The Commission requires all except the smallest of these carriers to file annual and monthly reports and requires the companies controlling any but the smallest to file annual reports. Full jurisdiction applies to practically all domestic and overseas telegraph carriers and to the Communications Satellite Corporation but not to a large number of telephone carriers which are engaged in interstate or foreign service only by connection with the facilities of another unaffiliated carrier. However, the gross operating revenues of the telephone carriers reporting annually to the Commission are estimated to cover over 90 percent of the revenues of all telephone carriers in the United States.

Broadcast. The number of broadcast stations authorized refers to the nun br licensed or holding construction permits. Total broadcast revenues are defined as total sales of time, talent, programs, and services of all networks and stations, less commissions to agencies. Reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission by broadcast stations and networks cover substantially all units operating in the United States and its outlying areas.

Nonbroadcast radio.-Most of the nonbroadcast radio services are grouped together as the safety and special radio services, which constitute the greatest number of radio stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. Utilization of these services by individuals, industry, commerce, and State and local government covers broad fields of operations in connection with protection of life and property, industrial and agricultural production, transportation, disaster, and civil defense.

Historical statistics.-Tabular headnotes provide cross-references, where applicable, to Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957. See preface.

Source: Chart prepared by U.S. Bureau of the Census. Data from American Telephone and Telegraph Company, United States Independent Telephone Association, and U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

FIG. XXXIII. PIECES OF MAIL RECEIVED PER CAPITA: 1950, 1960, AND 1972 [See table 800]

Source: Chart prepared by U.8. Bureau of the Census. Data from U.S. Postal Service.